Cognac & Cellar Practice
The place where a cognac grows older.
Hine’s Early Landed tradition asks a better question than age alone: where did the years happen?
LATEST / IN VIEW
The latest from WHV.
New discoveries, considered objects and developments worth following.
A different way into the archive.
54 stories · Page 5 of 5
Wine and Cellar Stewardship
What an old bottle needs.
Penfolds’ recorking clinics turn an ageing bottle into a question of condition, custody and informed intervention.
Wine & Standards
The vintage Yquem chose not to make.
The absence of a 2012 Château d’Yquem reveals something important about the standard behind the name.
Spirits & Cellaring
The other life of Chartreuse.
Chartreuse V.E.P. begins with the familiar green liqueur and gives selected liquid much longer in wood. A bottle where time needs careful reading.
Wine & Spirits
Forty years before the cork.
Blandy’s Sercial 1975 spent four decades in cask before bottling. The number on the label is only the beginning of its story.
Wine & Spirits
A bottle shaped by patience.
Château-Chalon’s 62-centilitre clavelin is a small invitation to question what makes a wine worth keeping or opening.